Kathy Hochul: “Major crime was down 23% and assaults down 40% [in August…”

“So that is the trajectory we're on, continuing to reduce it when in fact four years ago the numbers were just going up month by month. And so we're making a real difference. In August alone, Major crime was down 23% and assaults down 40% [in August alone]. And again, we're comparing a lot of this to the pre pandemic world, right? Pandemic. Take that out of the equation. It was surreal. Very different circumstances.” (05:38–05:44)

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